The low bun is the little black dress of wedding hair. It works on nearly everyone, it photographs from every angle, and it has somehow never once looked dated. But “low bun” covers a lot of ground. There is the sleek, pulled-tight version and the messy, piecey one that took an hour to look accidental. […]
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Search half up half down and you get a thousand photos of the back of someone’s head. Gorgeous braids. Intricate twists. Pinned-up crowns shot from directly behind. Not one of them tells you the thing you actually need to know: what the style looks like from the front. Which is a problem, because the front […]
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Half up, half down is what you pick when you refuse to choose between an updo and wearing it down. And honestly, why should you have to? You get the polish of a pinned-back crown and the romance of long, loose hair everywhere else. It also happens to be the most forgiving look on the […]
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The cake topper is the last thing you decide and the first thing everyone photographs. It is a tiny object, four inches of porcelain or wire or wood, and somehow it ends up in the background of every cake-cutting picture you will ever have. It is also the one wedding detail you get to make […]
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There is a moment at every reception when people drift toward the dessert table to see what they are getting. Cake is the expected answer. A pie is the one that makes them stop and say, oh, this is going to be a good wedding. Pie does things cake cannot. It comes in flavors that […]
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The cake gets all the attention. The stand underneath quietly decides whether your tiers look like a centerpiece or a snack someone left on a folding table. Material sets the whole mood. A raw wood log reads backyard and cozy, a polished silver pedestal reads black-tie, and clear glass disappears so the cake seems to […]
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The wedding cake somehow becomes the unofficial centerpiece of the whole reception. You start out wanting “just a nice cake,” and three Pinterest boards later you’re pricing out sugar peonies and hand-piped lace like it’s a second dress. Here’s the thing nobody tells you at the tasting: the cakes people actually remember are usually the […]
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There’s a specific moment in flower planning where you realize the tight, round, grocery-store-symmetrical bouquet is not the one. You want the version that looks like you wandered through a field on the way to the ceremony and grabbed whatever was beautiful. That looseness is harder to pull off than it looks. Boho bouquets live […]
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Here’s the part nobody warns you about a boho wedding: the “I just threw this together” look is the hardest one to fake. Done right, it reads ethereal, soft, a little wild. Romantic without trying too hard. Done wrong, it tips into renaissance fair, and you can feel the difference the second you walk in. […]
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